Abstract

This paper examines the correlations between biopsychosocial variables and low back pain. 160 German females and 110 German males (N = 270) completed a battery of questionnaires assessing their pain experience (chronicity and intensity), comorbidities, and causal attributions about disease onset. Significant relationships were found beween chronic back pain and higher age, lower education, and higher depression scale scores. Higher intensity back pain was significantly associated with being female, lower education, and higher depression scale scores. No significant associations were found between comorbidities and low back pain. Analyses of the causal attributions about disease onset revealed that back pain patients considered the item "constantly being stressed out" to be particularly relevant to the onset of heart disease, participants seemed less certain which personality factors play a role in the onset of low back pain.